‘We are radical, we are in love with this planet and we are acting in fierce love for our future.’

Rebel yell: Arne Springorum on XR in the Czech Republic, and why all Friends everywhere should act

by Arne Springorum 30th October 2020

In the autumn of 2018 I read Elisabeth Hering’s book about early Friends, their determination and suffering that led after a decades-long struggle to the achievement of the Act of Toleration. Those same weeks I was also deeply moved upon reading the obituary of a US Friend and Quaker from my first Meeting who went to prison as a conscientious objector during world war two. I distinctly remember saying to myself, ‘You are a Quaker, what will you go to prison for, what truth to power will you speak?’